Luxury on wheels by the Indian Railways

[illusion8]

A brand New Super Luxury Train

Royal Rajasthan on Wheels' - touted as India's most luxurious train - is a joint venture between Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation Ltd (RTDC) and the Indian Railways.

The train will run every Sunday between October and April from Delhi. It will travel across three states - Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh

 

[Supply&Demand]

now-a-days every state gov is starting luxury trains in collaboration with Indian railways..just saw video of luxury train running in Karnataka

 

[illusion8]

now-a-days every state gov is starting luxury trains in collaboration with Indian railways..just saw video of luxury train starting in Karnataka

Karnataka luxury train has been there from a long time.

 

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[veekysingh]

i wish i could buy it all, and make it my permanent home, its so damn pretty

 

[djsjs]

very very
Why not committed to improving ordinary train?

 

[veekysingh]

very very
Why not committed to improving ordinary train?

给你说一个字-learn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_India

 

[djsjs]

给你说一个字-learn

learn what?To build the palace on the tracks？

 

[Vibs]

Happy to see this service. Will earn quite a few $ with tourism inflow. But as many Chinese members have been Happy to point out, our basic trains are ancient! There has to be an upgrade.

Ironically, in communist China, railways are privatized but in India they still remain in the hands of the government. There is really a need to start atleast part privatization. Atleast, the competition would push the govt to upgrade wagons running under their control a.k.a. the bus services around the country.

 

[Asskicker]

Happy to see this service. Will earn quite a few $ with tourism inflow. But as many Chinese members have been Happy to point out, our basic trains are ancient! There has to be an upgrade.

Ironically, in communist China, railways are privatized but in India they still remain in the hands of the government. There is really a need to start atleast part privatization. Atleast, the competition would push the govt to upgrade wagons running under their control a.k.a. the bus services around the country.

Why privatize a profitable sector....?.For the sake of modernization ,if you privatize an profitable Sector,Expect ticket cost hikes and loss of revenue to goverment.Instead give contracts to private players for maintenance and cleanliness in Stations and Trains.

 

[Fireurimagination]

These luxury trains mostly caters to western tourists, common Indian hardly gets to experience them, they should run these palaces of wheels especially for Indians at a subsidized rates once in a while

 

[Yogi]

learn what?To build the palace on the tracks？

No he gave u a link of current n future development projects of IR, check his post again..

very very
Why not committed to improving ordinary train?

We r currently trying to improve the speed of our present trains upto 160-200 km along with laying 6 High Speed tracks as well as starting many dedicated freight corridors...

The above train is just a tourist attraction to make their stay pleasent as well as earn a few bucks.....

there r already many such trains running in India...

 

[Vibs]

Why privatize a profitable sector....?.For the sake of modernization ,if you privatize an profitable Sector,Expect prize hikes and loss of revenue to goverment.

Can't believe we still have such a view about privatization. The Indian railways is already in process of a price hike. But if you draw parallels to the airlines and the buses, privatization actually brought down prices due to competition and the service levels went up big time!

Also as long as it is within government control, every major modernization effort will face political opposition and chances of corruption, money laundering etc. Besides, increases accountability for the railways who currently get away with paltry compensation, half of which does not even reach the victim.

 

[Asskicker]

Can't believe we still have such a view about privatization. The Indian railways is already in process of a price hike. But if you draw parallels to the airlines and the buses, privatization actually brought down prices due to competition and the service levels went up big time!

Also as long as it is within government control, every major modernization effort will face political opposition and chances of corruption, money laundering etc. Besides, increases accountability for the railways who currently get away with paltry compensation, half of which does not even reach the victim.

Please check my edited post

 

[Vibs]

Please check my edited post

Agree with you partly. But govt stands to earn a lot more by collecting service taxes from Private players. Have you checked out the kind of taxes they collect from airlines and private buses? Any government organization is usually a behemoth in India and looses a lot of funds to running the administration that actual operations. Modernzation by privatization allows for a leaner organization which can do it with minimum price hikes. To give you another example, the telephone services! Remember when we paid Rs.15 for incoming mobile phone calls! All that changed with privatization!

Also, privatization is best when the sector is profitable! Who would take on the sector if it isn't???